The lovely friend who gave me this awesome yarn, also had a spare ball winder… and gifted it to me. This is the first yarn cake I ever made. So much fun! Cake! I didn’t think I’d really enjoy the winder, but oh, I do. It’s so lovely. Watching the skeins quickly disappear is really a joy, much more than winding them yourself. A swift would have been super helpful back then, but that’s food for another post…

The girls needed blankets for Stu’s car. He takes them to day care at times in his car, and they complained to me a few times about being cold in it. And with the spare Lumpy Bumpy yarn, I had more than enough yarn to make them each a blanket. I decided to crochet one and knit the other

Knit Lumpy Bumpy

The knit one is very similar to the Big Button Wrap, but with slightly different dimensions. Still, fun to watch the color and texture variations appear.

Crochet Lumpy Bumpy

The crochet version looked a bit like cauliflower as it worked up. I needed to start over, I was using a hook that was a bit too small, and the stitches were coming out a bit too tight. Redoing it with a slightly larger hook gave it a bit more airy look. There’s no big pattern for this at all, just a chain that was about 34 inches long, and I crocheted until it was about 24 inches long. I did finish it off with a quick single crochet border, but nothing fancy. The yarn really didn’t need it.

I may have used about twice as much yarn in the crochet version than the knit, for about the same dimensions, not that I was keeping track. I do think the color and texture work a bit better with crochet…

Crochet

Ashlin told me she likes the crochet one better than the knit… Teagan doesn’t seem to mind either…

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2 responses to “April 15, 2014 ~ Bumpy Blankets”

Wow, that’s interesting to see the same yarn worked into two different projects. Both are excellent and I tend to lean toward the crochet one simply because it would be something I could do. :) Both well done!!! I could cuddle with either!!